10/24/2012

The anti-conservative bias lawsuit at Iowa Law keeps getting uglier

A University of Iowa law professor who testified on behalf of a conservative colleague alleging she wasn't hired because of her conservative viewpoints says the school is retaliating by falsely suggesting he was under investigation for sexual misconduct. ...

While Osiel was on the witness stand, assistant attorney General George Carroll said that Osiel had recently faced a misconduct investigation after someone complained about hearing sexual grunting noises coming from his office at the law school. Carroll argued that information was relevant because it went to Osiel's credibility.

Osiel, 57, testified that the noises were from him taking part in exercises suggested by doctors to treat medical ailments. ...

"Raising this issue, which is legally irrelevant to the testimony that I was providing, shows how low the university will stoop in retaliating against its employees of 20 years," said Osiel, who has written extensively about legal responses to mass atrocity. "The university is manufacturing something for the purposes of the trial."

I'm damned glad I don't teach at Iowa. Adding retaliation to bias is going to make the place a hostile working environment for anyone right of center, whether student or faculty, assuming they haven't already purged everyone right of center from their liberal enclave.

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A University of Iowa law professor who testified on behalf of a conservative colleague alleging she wasn't hired because of her conservative viewpoints says the school is retaliating by falsely suggesting he was under investigation for sexual misconduct. ...

While Osiel was on the witness stand, assistant attorney General George Carroll said that Osiel had recently faced a misconduct investigation after someone complained about hearing sexual grunting noises coming from his office at the law school. Carroll argued that information was relevant because it went to Osiel's credibility.

Osiel, 57, testified that the noises were from him taking part in exercises suggested by doctors to treat medical ailments. ...

"Raising this issue, which is legally irrelevant to the testimony that I was providing, shows how low the university will stoop in retaliating against its employees of 20 years," said Osiel, who has written extensively about legal responses to mass atrocity. "The university is manufacturing something for the purposes of the trial."

I'm damned glad I don't teach at Iowa. Adding retaliation to bias is going to make the place a hostile working environment for anyone right of center, whether student or faculty, assuming they haven't already purged everyone right of center from their liberal enclave.